Re: Killing clones
Rob Hagopian (hagopiar@vuser.vu.union.edu)
Thu, 14 Aug 1997 09:03:39 -0400 (EDT)
> About a year ago a least was a a discussion about fixing up the
> CLONE_PID flag so that thread id's would be encoded in the upper bits of
> the pid. One could have ps list only the proc info for the initial
> thread (or other thread if the initial has exited), and be able to see
> what initial process all the threads are associated with.
So if 32-bit [real] PIDs come around (there was talk of them appearing in
2.1.x, and it's something I think a few people would like to see) then
we'd have 48 or 64 bit PIDs with thread info?
-Rob H.